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So I decided to close my spunding valve to see what would happen while it sat at 50 F over the last few days on the hops. It slowly started building pressure again and went from 8 psi to 10 psi over the course of a day. I figured the hops are probably causing it to off gas more. It is crazy to...

Definitely has been strange. I diid mash at 160 F to try and keep FG as high as possible despite the low starting gravity. I'm happy with 1.022 for my hazy, but was expecting it to go a bit lower given the stats on this yeast and what beersmith calculated. I know beer can off-gas.for some time...

Brewed up a session hazy 2 weeks ago and decided to use WLP067 for my yeast. I usually like to use imperial juice in my hazy's, but my harvested juice yeast was pretty old in generations, and just old in general. I didn't have time to build it back up in a starter, so I decided to try something...

1. I wouldn't worry about the krausen caked to the top of the inside of your carboy. It's not going to cause any harm and will likely remain stuck there until you clean it. If any does come off, it will likely drop to the bottom anyways. It won't get in the way of your hops. 2. I usually dry...

I've never really had a problem with diacetyl from 002. They work pretty fast, but just give it some extra time to clean up. I routinely use this yeast. I like to start fermentation at 62 F. Then let it free rise to 66 F three days later and let it finish at that temp. I always get a pretty...

I dump five gallons of sanitizer into my keg and then make an extra gallon or 2 on the side and continue filling it until it reaches the top. I then put the lid on and seal it up. From there, I dump the remaining sanitizer into my garden sprayer with hand pump that l converted to have a QD on...

It probably was 😅

I use wlp002 pretty often. Love this yeast. I don't like to harvest them from over built starters because they clump up and floc so quick that it's hard to get an even amount poured out of the starter. I've noticed some dark fruit/pear/plum like characteristics from them when fermented in the...

Thought it would be a good idea to put pressure on the FV and open the top port so co2 was pushing out and no o2 could go in while I attempted to dump pumpkin spice into the beer. Created a cloud of pumpkin spice as it blew everywhere. 🤦‍♂️ Don't do that.

Im not sure what kind if faucets you have, but i use the tapcooler counter pressure bottle filler to bottle off the keg. You need to have forward sealing faucets for it to work though...

There is mosaic in this batch! Citra, mosaic, and strata to be exact (majority strata). I was gonna toss in some idaho 7 because it was in the freezer and I need to get rid of it, but decided not to over do it since this is gonna be a low 4% session. I felt like i was starting to get close to...

I'm really liking some of those that chat gtp came up with 😂 Brew day went well, but it was much longer than I wanted it to be. I was happy the mill incident wasn't an indication of how my brew day was going to go. Hit all my numbers and targets spot on. We all know we do the happy dance either...

So I just went to my garage to mill my grains for brew day tomorrow. I like to have my grains milled and water profile dialed in the night/day before. I'll set my timer and strike water temp, so once I wake up everything is ready to go. I just grab my bucket of grains and mash in. Anyways...

I'd check your gravity and go based off that. 10 days is not unheard of to start dumping yeast and trub on most ales. I usually start crashing and dumping yeast on my standard gravity ales/low gravity ales around 7-10 days. However, a higher gravity ale may need a bit longer. Some yeast are a...

I am a firm believer that hops interact with yeast and that yeast can bind to hop oils/compounds and take them with them as they drop out. My reasoning is that many of my older IPAs were dry hopped with yeast still in suspension. Those beers came out very delicious and hop forward for the first...